Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3P FX

Performance Results


Gaming 21% Surfboard	Desktop 78% Battleship	Workstation 18% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (72nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 28 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 74.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	21.7% is a below average 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle older games but it will struggle to render recent games at resolutions greater than 1080p. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	88.6% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum IO wait times.
Memory	16GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's more than sufficient for nearly all games. 16GB also allows for very large file and system caches, software development and batch photo editing/processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3P FX (all builds)
Memory	12.8 GB free of 16 GB @ 0.8 GHz
Display	1440 x 900 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170713
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Dec 07 '17 at 20:28
Run Duration	135 Seconds
Run User	ROU-User
Background CPU	0%

PC Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile)

Actual performance vs. expectations. The graphs show user score (x) vs user score frequency (y).

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD FX-8370-$175 34,720 User benchmarks, average bench 62% CPU 1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.2 GHz, turbo 4.15 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	74.5% Very good	Memory 91.9 1-Core 82.2 2-Core 164 68% 113 Pts	4-Core 310 8-Core 490 49% 400 Pts	64-Core 487 30% 487 Pts
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 74.5% Great: 68%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD Radeon RX 560-B 49,289 User benchmarks, average bench 20% Asus(1043 054B) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1187 MHz, MLim: 1500 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 17.7 Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	21.7% Poor	Lighting 25.7 Reflection 29 Parallax 36.5 21% 30.4 fps	MRender 27.9 Gravity 24.4 Splatting 31.1 23% 27.8 fps
Poor: 17% ↑ This bench: 21.7% Great: 22%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 135GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (16^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 220 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 384 (B1) Unknown 99 99 2 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 61 56 39 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 230 (F1) Unknown 99 99 1256837337	88.6% Excellent	Read 501 Write 379 Mixed 386 94% 422 MB/s	4K Read 35.5 4K Write 51.9 4K Mixed 35.2 126% 40.9 MB/s	DQ Read 174 DQ Write 116 DQ Mixed 60.7 68% 117 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 88.6% Great: 124%
WD Blue 640GB (2008)-$33 94,563 User benchmarks, average bench 50% 335GB free Firmware: 01.0 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (80^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 58 (03) Spinup time 160 159 5000 (04) Start/Stop count 88 88 12522 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 59 59 30544 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 92 92 8702 (C0) Power-off retract count 198 198 1707 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 197 197 11595 (C2) HDA temperature 109 95 38 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 149 31143 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	57.2% Above average	Read 100 Write 98.9 Mixed 95.5 74% 98.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.47 4K Write 1.8 4K Mixed 0.34 91% 0.87 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 57.2% Great: 62%
Seagate Expansion Desk 2TB 7,241 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 963GB free, PID 3320 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing above expectations (67^th percentile)	61.1% Good	Read 160 Write 156 Mixed 126 186% 147 MB/s	4K Read 0.91 4K Write 1.23 4K Mixed 0.3 56% 0.81 MB/s
Poor: 13% ↑ This bench: 61.1% Great: 74%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston KHX1600C10D3/ Nanya M2X4G64CB8HG5 KHX1600C10D3/ Nanya M2X4G64CB8HG5 16GB 800, 800, 800, 800 MHz 4096, 4096, 4096, 4096 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	51% Above average	MC Read 21.5 MC Write 16.6 MC Mixed 17.6 53% 18.6 GB/s	SC Read 10.2 SC Write 4.2 SC Mixed 13.9 27% 9.43 GB/s	Latency 64.3 62% 64.3 ns

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Desktop 65%

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Workstation 16%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3P FX

CPU
FX-6300AMD $47Bench 55%, 261,607 samples	154x
FX-8350AMD $130Bench 61%, 313,196 samples	134x
FX-8300AMD $168Bench 58%, 49,767 samples	28x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	76x
Radeon RX 560-BAMDBench 20%, 49,289 samples	29x
RX 580AMD $130Bench 52%, 360,351 samples	23x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	13x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	10x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	10x

RAM
HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBKingstonBench 46%, 10,715 samples	17x
EWB4GB681PAE- 2x4GBUnknownBench 42%, 340 samples	15x
1866 CL10 Ser 2x8GBUnknownBench 46%, 679 samples	13x

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Value: 61% - Good

Total price: $206

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $177	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $43	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16